National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2072
Original release date:06/15/2009
Last revised:06/23/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Apple Safari does not require a cached certificate before displaying a lock icon for an https web site, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an arbitrary https site by sending the browser a crafted (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response page for an https request sent through a proxy server.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
5.5
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Local network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 35411
External Source: MISC
Name: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
External Source: MISC
Name: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
